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The Center for Jewish History in New York, where the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is based. (Photo/Gryffindor-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inCulture

YIVO’s planned webinar series on Hamas exposes rift in Yiddish world over Israel

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 14, 2024February 23, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Shortly after the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announced […]

Ver voynt in an ananas untern yam? (Photo/Getty; Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inTV & Film

The ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ theme song is now in Yiddish

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 14, 2022
The Gravlabs menorah bong was the impetus for the exhibit on Jews and cannabis. (Photo/YIVO Archives)
Posted inBay Area

‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 29, 2022April 29, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
a bald man in a blue t-shirt standing in a field of green stalks that reach over his head
Posted inSmall Bites

Donations from the wine garden; Saul’s new bagel window; kosher delivery; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 31, 2020August 4, 2020
YIVO announced last month the discovery of 170,000 Jewish documents that were thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. (Photo/JTA-Thos Robinson-Getty Images for YIVO)
Posted inUncategorized

5 amazing newly recovered Yiddish documents hidden during the Holocaust

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten November 16, 2017November 16, 2017
Singer Jeanette Lewicki (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Community Library)
Posted inArt, Culture, On Stage, Theater

Local singer brings to life cross-dressing Yiddish vaudevillian

by Hannah Rubin January 10, 2017March 23, 2018

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